Woody Guthrie
Singer-Songwriter
"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people"
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Comforting
223 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hippocrates
Physician
"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."
Sandra Lee
Chef
"Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal."
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"I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened."
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"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."
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"There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion."
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"A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance."
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"One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music."
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"There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope."
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"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments."
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"With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving."
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"There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times."
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"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
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"I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once."
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"Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
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"A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating."
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"Stew's so comforting on a rainy day."
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"I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise."
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"The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."
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"I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world."
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"It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy."
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"Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things."
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